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ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE,

As applied to Design:

FOR THE USE OF

ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS, AND MANUFACTURERS.

COMPRISED IN FOUR PAPERS BY

F. E. HULME, F.L.S., F.S.A.;
J. GLAISHER, F.R.S.;

S. J. MACKIE, F.G.S., F.S.A.;
ROBERT HUNT, F.R.S.

Reprinted from the Art-Journal.

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS ON WOOD.

LONDON:
VIRTUE & CO., 26, IVY LANE, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1872.

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LONDON:
PRINTED BY VIRTUE AND CO.,
CITY ROAD.

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PREFACE.

ATURE may be studied in many aspects; her wealth of service and beautyis freely open to all who seek; and while the man of science, by patientstudy and assiduous toil, may learn something of her mystery, and gatherfrom her not unwilling hands rich treasure of knowledge for the benefitof humanity (for without the midnight watch and the elaboratecalculation of the astronomer navigation would yet be in its infancy;without the enthusiasm of the botanist as he toils in the tropic forestthe virtues of many a healing plant would be unknown; without the keenperception of the geologist the miner’s task would be in vain), so theman of art in no less degree may find in her study richest elements ofbeauty, loveliest suggestions of colour, forms of infinite grace. Adelight in the study of Nature, a desire to realise something of itsgrandeur, is a source of unbounded pleasure to its possessor, for to himno walk can be a weariness, no season of the year dreary, no soil sosterile as to be barren of interest:—

“The meanest flow’ret of the vale,
The simplest note that swells the gale,
The common sun, the air, the skies,
To him are opening Paradise.”

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The lichen on the rock, the wayside grass, the many-coloured fungi, areno less full of beauty than the forms that more ordinarily attractattention, and are no less worthy of study. “The works of the Lord aregreat, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein;” and Naturehas ever to the devout mind, from its own inherent beauty and itstestimony to Him its creator and sustainer, been a study of the deepestinterest. Some who glance over these opening remarks be

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